Then I clicked on images. I can click on the images that look like a problem. That gives me the name of the thread. Right click to open in a new tab. It's easy to see if it's a new (to me) thread or one that I've already reported.

After I went through My Content, I had some luck doing an image search as:

Well Trained Mind Forum [insert user name] and found some older stuff.

Susan, this can't be explained, but if ever there was a thread that you probably need to just delete from top to bottom, though we are very, very proud of that thread, it would be the Ken Ham Kerfuffle of 2011 (GHC, Peter Enns, Ken getting in trouble, a little while later putting the tsunami "cartoon" on his blog, etc.). I doubt you have forgotten that! It was the beginning of the kilt obsession and was over 2000 posts strong, so my guess is that there are a gazillion kilt photos in that thread.

Next would be the cupcake kerfuffle of Aug. 2012. That had a HUGE number of cupcake photos. I still haven't been able to use the advanced search engine to pull up anything older than April.

Anyway, if it says Ryan Gosling, Benedict Cumberpatch, or Cupcake in the thread title, it probably needs to go. We are rather obsessed that way!

I think you instigated this because you didn't like my new picture. Hmph.

I'm pretty sure the graphics I've posted have been from Wikipedia or (in a few cases) my pictures of my kids' work. I once had a photo of an ugly girl's outfit from an old book, that I posted years ago, but I have no clue where that is. Ugh.

Anyway, apparently my current avatar is from a portrait drawn by his brother in 1848.

My guess would be that it has something to do with the rather, er, sensitive celebrity pictures that were stolen recently when several phones were hacked, and lawyers/law enforcement coming down hard on websites that have posted those and other unauthorized celebrity photos. Just a guess, though.

And my avatar is me. It was taken by my friend Jodi, but I don't foresee her coming after anyone over a copyright violation.

Ugh! My issue is that I'm so technically inept that I haven't posted any pictures, blocks of text, etc. However, I very well may have quoted a post which contained the aforementioned items. I have no idea which, when, or how many. I can't troll through all my posts. Any thoughts?

<< I have no idea where my avatar came from. Pretty sure it's not a celebrity. Might be art work? Does it need to come down? I tried Googling it and can't find anything. At one time I must have known where it came from. Probably some image I found on the internet and liked it.

My guess would be that it has something to do with the rather, er, sensitive celebrity pictures that were stolen recently when several phones were hacked, and lawyers/law enforcement coming down hard on websites that have posted those and other unauthorized celebrity photos. Just a guess, though.

And my avatar is me. It was taken by my friend Jodi, but I don't foresee her coming after anyone over a copyright violation.

That is my guess as well. I just never realized I have a picture posting problem until now.

Wow, this sounds like a total headache! I didn't know where my previous avatar was from, so I just searched for public domain images and chose one of those. I hope that's ok. (If not, let me know and I'll take it down.) I don't think I've ever posted a picture otherwise.

My guess would be that it has something to do with the rather, er, sensitive celebrity pictures that were stolen recently when several phones were hacked, and lawyers/law enforcement coming down hard on websites that have posted those and other unauthorized celebrity photos. Just a guess, though.

Ah, very possibly. That makes sense. Obviously, we're not generally into THAT sort of thing. Did we even discuss that issue here? I don't think we did, never mind post photos.

I have a new avatar. I took the photo myself. It is highly representative of my favorite homeschool resources. It is sideways, but I'm not sure why, lol. I can't get it to post right side up.

Beefcake photos of Otto von Habsburg, Anton Chekhov, Ernest Hemingway? Does anyone know how old a photo has to be before it's public domain? I ask because my photo of Jean Genet has disappeared, I assume as part of the general cleansing? Or can uploaded photos disappear without someone having taken them down? Maybe better just to delete everything.

I haven't had time to read the whole thread so maybe this was already covered but I know there are certain prolific posters, including the poster formerly known as Sparkly, that are no longer on this site, as far as I know. Should we try to help point out their posts that might need editing? Or link here to threads containing posts from those former posters that need editing so that a moderator can step in?

Good luck to all the rest of you who are trying to comb through old posts.

Beefcake photos of Otto von Habsburg, Anton Chekhov, Ernest Hemingway? Does anyone know how old a photo has to be before it's public domain? I ask because my photo of Jean Genet has disappeared, I assume as part of the general cleansing? Or can uploaded photos disappear without someone having taken them down? Maybe better just to delete everything.

My mother once had a lady promise her Biblical collection contained a photo of Jesus. Intrigued, my mother visited the collection. It was indeed a photo, but a photo of a painting.

Luckily the quote in my signature is from 1901. Whew.

ETA: I posted three "beefcake" photos in August of 2012, but it only shows in my search history, and two of the photos are no longer valid, only one of Mike Myers in a kilt. And the thread can't be pulled up because it's so old.

I don't even know how to find pictures I've posted, but since I don't do many, and I usually seek out Wikipedia, including for some wacky charts I've posted, I am just going to do my best to check and call it a day.

I downloaded my avatar many years ago from a site with free, animated avatars. Would this type of site be in the public domain?

I got mine from a site with avatars others had created. But I didn't know if the person who created/posted owned the image. So in an effort to let people still recognize me, I drew my own with a mouse. I like my old one better.

Some of the threads were so photo-laden that I took them down instead of editing. Sorry...but it's turning into a long day.

I think it's perfectly understandable if you need to remove old threads, particularly because it seems as though time is of the essence. I'm sure I'm not alone in saying that you should do whatever you need to do.

I've gone back over the last 40 pages of my posts. Ugh. What an idiot I am. Why do I have so many posts about how great mac and cheese is, of all things?

I can't deal with going back through time to find old photos. I have no memory of posting much of that, and I always aim for something from Wikipedia.

I am not going to take out extended quotations from books that are old and in the public domain and available on archive.org such as Mother Tongue, e.g. http://forums.welltr...e/#entry5842893

Per SWB, I am keeping the few embedded YouTube clips in. (ETA I removed the Degrassi Jr High episode but am keeping Kant and can't pronunctiation videos.)

I reduced some of my quotations in posts. I did a parody with a single word change of Green Eggs and Ham. I have decided parodies are allowed as free speech. I am at least as clever as 2 Live Crew. Right?

<< I have no idea where my avatar came from. Pretty sure it's not a celebrity. Might be art work? Does it need to come down? I tried Googling it and can't find anything. At one time I must have known where it came from. Probably some image I found on the internet and liked it.

<< I have no idea where my avatar came from. Pretty sure it's not a celebrity. Might be art work? Does it need to come down? I tried Googling it and can't find anything. At one time I must have known where it came from. Probably some image I found on the internet and liked it.

Nobody is going to know me.

I was wondering that too. Mine is clip art from somewhere. Probably not public domain, but I really don't remember.